Disclosing horizons : architecture, perspective and redemptive space /
Since its developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured. This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how historical changes in the representation and percepti...
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London ; New York :
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 1.
- Order and chaos, or "What to leave out?"
- Taking measures
- Nietzsche's perspectivism
- Being-in-the-world
- Alterity and infinity
- Visible and invisible
- What to leave out?
- 2.
- Number, geometry and dialectic
- origin of geometry
- Pythagoras and the unutterable
- Meno
- Timaeus
- Ad triangulum versus ad quadratum
- Triangulating perspective
- School of Athens
- Louis Kahn's Yale Art Gallery
- 3.
- Light, memory and colour
- Medieval transformations
- From memory to recorded document
- Light metaphysics
- Optical science
- Grosseteste's light
- Bishop's Eye
- Light and perspective
- Light and the colour of experience
- Steven Holl's Chapel of St Ignatius
- 4.
- Topography, rhetoric and the vanishing point
- Horizontal and vertical worlds
- Convivial settings
- Alberti's eye
- Nicholas Cusanus
- Papal Window
- Alvaro Siza's Galician Centre for Contemporary Art
- 5.
- Unity in multiplicity
- Baroque and universality
- Distentio animi and the dome
- Athanasius Kircher
- Leibniz and the monad
- J. B. Fischer von Erlach
- Hofbibliothek
- Peter Zumthor's St Benedict's Church
- 6.
- Nature and immensity
- Transgressing boundaries
- picturesque and the sublime
- Chambers and oikoumene
- Boullee's visionary perspectives
- Casper David Friedrich's studio
- Rem Koolhaas' EuraLille and "I'Espace Piranesien"
- 7.
- Disjointed views
- Attention and perspective
- Attention and distraction
- Illusion of a "mastering totalisation"
- Magnification and distortion
- Gustave Moreau's house
- Eric Parry's artists' studios, London
- Conclusion: architecture that looks back at us.